1946 JOHN VON NEUMANN

PROPOSES THAT A PROGRAM BE STORED IN A COMPUTER IN THE SAME WAY THAT DATA ARE STORED. HIS PROPOSAL, CALLED THE "VON NEUMANN ARCHITECTURE," IS THE BASIS FOR MODERN COMPUTERS.

John Von Neuman, a brilliant mathematician, joined Eckert and Mauchly in 1946 and began working on an improved version of ENIAC called EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer). He rediscovered the concept of the stored program, first introduced by Charles Babbage. John Von Neuman is given credit for introducing the concept of the stored program in modern computers.

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